The Teacher Quotes

“You know things are seriously bad when even ice cream doesn’t help.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“You like spending time with your books more than you like spending time with me. I don’t think it was true, but if it was, could anyone blame her?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Digging a grave is hard work.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“But we’re never going to be able to be friends again. Things will never be the way they used to be between the two of us. Not since Hudson helped me kill my father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If you’ve never been buried alive, I don’t recommend it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I am so lucky. I have a beautiful house, a fulfilling career, and a husband who is kind and mild mannered and incredibly handsome. And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Every time I think I’ve experienced the worst day yet, there is a new winner.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And as I put the finishing touches on my husband’s grave in the woods, I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher fresh out of college who swore to me I was his soulmate: Life nearly passed me by Then she Young and alive With smooth hands And pink cheeks Showed me myself Took away my breath With cherry-red lips Gave me life once again”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“She’s just lucky that Nate sees something in her, because God knows I don’t.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Not since Hudson helped me kill my father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I remember when I was a little kid, I felt like anything that was wrong, my mom could hug me and make it right again. But there is no way for her to make any of this right again. Part of growing up is figuring out that your parents don’t have that ability anymore.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Sometimes I try to kid myself that I’m an adult now, but how can I be an adult when I still feel fifteen half the time?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I have eaten lunch alone every day”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“We never left it in the trunk after all.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If I were a cat, I would have peed on him, but since I’m a human, I plant a kiss on his lips that is markedly steamier than our usual three kisses per day.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I imagine dying is like standing on the precipice of that abyss, knowing that you will fall in at any second.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“He just called me his soulmate. It’s wild, because I feel the exact same way, but I would have thought I was imagining it if he hadn’t said it. “You can’t help who you form a connection with. Right?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“We spent the entire class running”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“but until that second”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I am so lucky. I have a beautiful house”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“The grave is empty.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“He told me no other adult would get it,”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“My charms invariably perform well on the opposite sex.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“We bury her in a place no one will find her.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“It’s Addie Severson.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And then I meet you”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“me that as angry as I am at Kenzie”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“You were right. I should never have married him.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher